TIGRAN TOROSIAN: RA NA WORKED MUCH AND ADOPTED MANY IMPORTANT LAWS
Noyan Tapan
Mar 22 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 22, NOYAN TAPAN. RA NA March 22 sittings failed like
the previous day due to no quorum. As a result, votings of 18 bills
and legislative packages discussed previously did not take place. In
response to journalists’ questions, NA Speaker Tigran Torosian
expressed an opinion that either a special sitting will be convened for
votings or according to the NA Regulations, the authors of incomplete
issues will move them in the same status to the agenda of parliament
of next convocation. He also noted that it is difficult to suppose
that the special sitting will be convened on deputies’ initiative. As
T. Torosian explained, "if the sitting is convened, this probably
will be only on government’s initiative, as the prevailing majority
of introduced bills, the voting of which was to take place today,
are bills introduced on government’s initiative." Though NA Speaker
promised to summarize the results of work of parliament of current
convocation for journalists in the nearest future, nevertheless,
in response to a journalist’s question, he assured that "no one had
supposed that the number and quality of laws adopted during the spring
session would be so." As he affirmed, the parliament worked well and
the failure of the sittings of last two days "certainly, cannot be
justified, but can be understood" in consideration of the fact that
parliamentary elections will be held in 1.5 months. In the opinion
of NA Speaker, personally he has done his best to ensure parliament’s
normal work and he is content that during 2006 autumn and 2007 spring
sessions the parliament "worked much and adopted many important
laws." As regards the fact that the parliament of current convocation
completes its activity without National Assembly Vice-Speaker, in T.
Torosian’s opinion, "if there was a political consent and there were
candidates, the election would be held without fail." "Maybe during
the autumn session the time was not enough for holding such election,"
he noted. To recap, the post of one out of two NA Vice-Speakers has
been vacant since 2006 June 1 when, after the resignation of Orinats
Yerkir Party leader Artur Baghdasarian, former NA Vice-Speaker Tigran
Torosian was elected as NA Speaker.